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Great post, however please note that not everyone will achieve the same results is you - but I do believe more should try lifestyle changes first before they CONVINCE themselves they are "incurable" without further dramatic measures! Glad to have you here, smashingfloyd1.

smashingfloyd1 wrote:The drugs are just toxins pumped into your body. the end. So drink plenty of water now that your off too. Its almost like in Haiti with real life zombifications where if someone commits a crime they pump that persons body full of toxins and put them in that zombie state. These drugs are toxins that put you in a zombie state too. When you have those toxins in you it blocks the vitamins and nutrients you get from fruits and vegetables. Well now those drugs are out so start stocking up. try drinking detox teas too just dont go nuts. i started getting real thin on top of how thin i am already. i have a fast metabolism so im sure that helped my process but i made the choice in what direction to go in. no matter how your body is you should do yourself a favor and choose the right direction. i used to hear about exitol and stuff like that and tried it, no. Just another waste. Stock up on what your body needs. be healthy. the drugs blocked that, now they wont. now you can stock up. so do it already. I didnt have to come on here and share this with you guys, its not like i have something to gain from this like a doctor who is paid to be there. this is out of the kindness of my heart cause i know how rough this is, believe me. doctors havent been in our shoes, i have. you can ignore me if you want, but it would be just be more sadness.

How could you explain your recovery in terms of sex? How are your erections, libido, morning wood...now?

My symptoms were seeing all women the same way i see all guys physically lol. There was nothing. Im the kinda person where personality goes a long way, but on drugs that didnt even matter with girls who i knew i would have been physically attracted to in high school before being on the drugs. I was this way for about fifteen years. i wanted to at least try to push myself into dating hoping emotion would take over and then bring in the sex, but was too afraid of the humiliating situation of not getting it up. after a traumatic hospitalization where the "doctor" screwed up and i had to go in for him to fix the bad reaction, only for him to make it worse and worse for a few weeks with all these SSI's and anti psychotics that i got inspired to say fuck it and asked out this girl at work when i got out. Even though those drugs made it difficult it still wasnt as hard as when i was on tramadol (which at that point just got removed) where i was literally in another world. i dated this girl who was madly in love with me but i still wasnt quite here. i wanted to be, but i wasnt. i would take herbal supplements in the morning and go run and then i would get hard and have sex, but only on very occassion much less to her satisfaction and she got all the feeling, not me. I always had a tickling fetish and oddly enough that never went away. dont know why exactly. so when i would tickle her it was at least easier for erections than for actual sex. after she cheated on me and left i decided enough was enough. its much better now, but i do get depressed because i have trauma (flash backs) and a new additional view on people and the world on my situation so yeah ill get depressed and wont get aroused when im that way. but when i am able to think positively then i get aroused. and i can have morning wood. this is a pretty typical realm now. teenagers i think are hard even when depressed (lol) after that depression kills your libido like should. so yeah i made it to where as long as im happy the rest of me is happy which again is typical. so i just gotta keep my spirits up and the miracle is pulled off. for whoever said people may not get the same results doing what i do, yes and no (in my opinion). is you go the health route (physically AND mentally) you should have some sort of positive results. eventually they should be big. they may not be mine exactly but they will be a sexual bennefit. this is actually old information that just gets down played alot. especially by the medical feild. it means lack of business for them. its like how they will say these drugs we have been on are safer than pot. i used to smoke pot to feel alive in this world when i was on these drugs. my real problem now is lack of money because i could barely keep a job on drugs and wihtdrawals wasnt any better. so im starting from the bottom with that. but that doesnt bother me as much as it would someone who didnt go through pssd. it took me a long time to get here after the drugs were out but went quicker than should have because an all natural therapist who is against this sort of treatment told me what to do. i didnt stay with her long because i realized she would never know enough about my personal problems and it was time to do this on my own, but i took her advice on the sexual stuff with healthy tips. she just said vegetables, fruit, and fish, and fish oil caspsules from health stores, and meditation and i learned more specifics on that. anyway, stay dedicated and youll be fine. there is no easy solution. when has there ever been in life. the so called doctors told us these drugs are an easy solution to our unhappiness and we got the hard lesson of life on that one.

For the questions what SRRI's did I take, I would say all of them. I was on five drugs at once for 15 years and they were always changing. the psychiatrists were never willing to admit the drugs were causing my problems. so they would replace drugs to counter out side effects, but claim it was to fight disorders. the ssri that hurt me the most was lamictal I would say, at least in that family. then eased over to Topamax by another psychotrist. wasn't as bad but still bad enough.

smashingfloyd1 wrote:For the questions what SRRI's did I take, I would say all of them. I was on five drugs at once for 15 years and they were always changing. the psychiatrists were never willing to admit the drugs were causing my problems. so they would replace drugs to counter out side effects, but claim it was to fight disorders. the ssri that hurt me the most was lamictal I would say, at least in that family. then eased over to Topamax by another psychotrist. wasn't as bad but still bad enough.

lamictal is not a ssri and topamax either ... So it is possible that you have never taken a ssri and therefore you have never had pssd ... Could it be?

I thought lamictal and topomax were in the same catagory as drugs like prozac, celexa, zoloft, paxil, luvox, lexepro. Which i have all been on but got the worst effects from lamictal. None of them were a picnic but that one hurt me more. I guess i was wrong that lamictal was in that catagory, i guess i was thinking it was because all the problems it caused more so than the others. I was still on the others, still had alot of issues with them, either way the results were the same. Everyone reacts differently i guess. I guess i was blaming the wrong drug for that particular side effect. Good to know. Im sensing you think im full of it. Thats ok marsanchez397. You do what you want. I had good intentions and know the effects i had and what i overcame. You do what you think is best for you. I did what worked for me. I was only trying to help. Wasnt trying offend you. If this is going to turn into a witch hunt than just forget it. I have better things to focus on. I tried...